You Can Negotiate Better Than Trump This isn’t a political post. Sorry to disappoint you if you came here to read a liberal tirade against Trump. I want to talk with you briefly about negotiation and the faults I see in all politicians as negotiators. Trump ran...

Dumb Thinking Consider this: “First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts in hospitals across the United States starting July 1, when a much-debated cap that limits the physicians to 16 consecutive hours of patient care is lifted, the organization...

Shut Up! I work with lots of partnership problems. The hardest part of my job is dealing with “loose lips”. There was an expression during the time of WW2 that “Loose lips sink ships”. The reasoning went like this: A sailor in a bar makes a...

Do This Now for a Better Year Ahead The time between the Christmas holiday and the official first work day of the new year is an ideal time to clean up your computer. We all tend to save too much stuff. We save emails we don’t need. We save files that are way...

Business going well? Everything on track? Sure? It’s time for a reminder. That next big crisis is right around the corner. We won’t see it coming because it won’t look like the last one. It will be new and unexpected. Kaboom. You’re in it. Are...